A pleasure to teach, a treasure to know: in every classroom Corean entered, she received happy news about her son.
His "Project Hope" sends out buses, painted with an antelope, to rural villages, to teach schoolchildren to treasure flowers, streams and woods.
But the civil war he conjures up in its place teaches him to treasure the tender hope his equally bereaved granddaughter represents.
The erasure of death also allows us to imagine that our mortal trivialities and anxieties are permanent, while a consistent awareness of death — for those who can stomach it — can help us live in the here and now, and teach us to treasure what we already have.
And most of all, perhaps, they've taught me to treasure the magic of small moments.
My brothers teach me to treasure the differences in people the same way I appreciate varieties in food.
Some other schools such as Nanyang Girls High School, Bukit View Primary School and Park View Primary School gave free tickets to their students while Anglo-Chinese School (Primary) encouraged co-pay of $1 to $2 by the students to teach them to treasure their tickets.
Looking back at my journey and the path of those four musicians whom I idolized, Ringo, Paul, George and John continue to teach me to treasure each day though their lives and song.
You have taught us to treasure the gospel, to ponder through critical questioning and compassion the moral complexities of our time, to deliberate with others with humility and without coercion, and to choose our actions in devotion to God and service to neighbor.
But we lose meaning, kindness and depth of feeling: traits that I hope to teach my students to treasure.
